Homosexuals have a right to tolerance, not approval. Homosexual marriage is
about approval, not tolerance. Thus it properly falls under the purview of state
majorities, as regulated by the state constitutions they have enacted or may
enact. It is for state majorities to decide what kinds of marriage they
will recognize and what kinds of unions they will grant the incidents of
marriage to. Securing these state's rights will require a federal
constitutional amendment.

California gubernatorial replacement candidate Cruz Bustamante
and his organization MEChA are cadre of radical leftists who espouse the most
explicit racism while proclaiming that the real racist force, the great enemy to
be destroyed, is American liberty.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
For California, 10/10, general points about liberty, 8/10. How right:
On Bustamante, 7/10 (only address his worst points), on general points, 10/10.
My competence to speak authoritatively as to the rightness of the article:
accuracy of representations of cited sources, 9/10; general points, 10/10.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
8/10. How right: 9/10. My competence to speak
authoritatively as to the rightness of the article: accuracy of representations
of cited sources, 9/10; personal knowledge of facts cited, 1/10.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
9/10. How right: 9/10. My competence to speak
authoritatively as to the rightness of the article: accuracy of representations
of cited sources, 9/10; moral logic 10/10.

Article, 6/7/03:

Any Palestinian
state must contain and protect Jews What the Arab world
needs is not just democracy, but republicanism, the system of liberty under law,
with religious liberty, political liberty, economic liberty and equal
protection. President Bush proclaimed to the assembled Arab leaders at Sharm
el-Sheikh that it is “a universal call… the call of all religions, that
each person must be free and treated with respect.” If the Arab model of
modernity is allowed to become "liberty for me but not for thee," the war for President
Bush's morally correct objective will be lost, with consequences we don't even
want to think about. The principles of republicanism, especially freedom of
contract, show the way.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
10/10. How right: 10/10. My competence to speak authoritatively
as to the rightness of the article: moral logic, 10/10, historical facts, 2/10
(but in the limited way used 9/10).

Article, 5/8/03:

Racial profiling in Palo Alto
The data show that Palo Alto police are searching blacks and Hispanics pulled
over in traffic stops at higher rates than they are searching whites, but these
relative rates are lower than the relative crime rate. Unless black criminals
are better at hiding their criminal natures, this suggests that police are
searching relatively unsuspicious seeming whites while giving a pass to
relatively more suspicious seeming blacks. Palo Alto police are not profiling
blacks and hispanics, but they should be.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
6/10. How right: 4/10 on the parsing of the statistical
implications; 10/10 on the analysis of the propriety of profiling. My competence to speak authoritatively
as to the rightness of the article: 9/10.

Self ratings for the above article: How important:
7/10. How right: 7/10. My competence to speak authoritatively
as to the rightness of the article: 8/10. How interesting?
10/10.

Article, 3/20/03:

The end of equal protection:
Korematsu to BollingerThe Supreme Court in
Korematsu (the internment case) pulled off a coup, applying the 14th amendment to the federal
government, even though the 14th Amendment explicitly does not apply to the
federal government. To hide its coup, the Court established a test for
compromising equal protection that failed to distinguish between state and
federal interests. This test denies the supremacy of the Constitution, placing merely
allowed state interests on a par with express constitutional purposes. If such
state interests are allowed to take precedence over the 14th Amendment in
Bollinger (the affirmative action case now before the Court), then equal
protection is dead.

Self ratings for the above article: How important?
10/10. How right? 9/10. My competence to speak authoritatively
as to the rightness of the article: 5/10.

Article, 2/26/03:

Thinking straight about race
Information about people as individuals is more specific, and hence more
valuable to employers and other associates, than group based expectations. Thus
under liberty, private institutions will develop so as to bring out and
act on information about people as individuals, lessening reliance on group
based expectations. Interference with liberty, through such mechanisms as equal
employment opportunity law and state imposed affirmative action, only keeps this progress from
occurring, causing group based expectations to play a larger role in society
than they otherwise would.

Self ratings for the above article: How important?
10/10. How right? 8/10. My competence to speak authoritatively as to
the rightness of the article: 9/10.

Article, 1/2003:

Stop anti-natalist tax cuts
Non-conservatives still operate under the delusion that human reproduction does
more harm than good. Conservatives, in contrast, are alert to the developing
tragedy of western population implosion. Anti-natalist tax proposals from
supposedly conservative policy-makers indicates a terrible lack of vital
economic understanding….

Self ratings for the above article: How important?
6/10. How right? 8/10. My competence to speak authoritatively as to
the rightness of the article: 7/10.

Article, 11/21/2002:

Blacks and Guns
African-Americans have a serious problem with guns.... They don't have enough of
them. Law abiding blacks must be free to defend themselves and each other so
that they can live as safe as other people without being under the heel of the
police.

Self ratings for the above article: How important?
10/10. How right? 10/10. My competence to speak authoritatively as
to the rightness of the article: 10/10.